KNO^A/LEDGE ♦ 



-4L V^ AN ILUJ^TRATED ^^tM'. 



>^ MAGAZINE OF SCIENCE -- 

 plainlyV/orded-ExactlyDescribed 



LONDON: FUIBAY, JULY 31, 1885. 



Contents of No. 196. 



Mysteries and Morftlities. III. By""^ Gossip. By Km li;. : \ r ■ 



Edward ClodJ 83 I lievieivs 



Notes on Mapping. (/»«s.) By _ Face ..f the sky. v., 1 i: \ 



Photography and'Medi'cai jurispru- ' Correspon.len.r Tl... I; ! Ii M - 



dence. By W. Mathews 88 | —Evolution — The Still Snii.ll 



The Genesht. (Illus.) 88 Voice from the Fussil Great 



Illnsions of the Senses. By R. A. Deep-Ocular Spectra-Tbinfs in 



Proctor 89! General, and a few other Sub- 



Tricking the Condors i)0 jects - Lammas - Michaelmas — 



(niu>.) °b"h!j. 3°«ck .' 91 Our ii.^H,-, I :.,'i.'.:i ■!.:.;■.'.'.;;!!!! i 



Colossal Sculpture. {IUu$.) By ; Oar :\ i i i ' , ,n 1 



M. Bartholdi 93 1 Our i : . r,.|,,K , ] 



MYSTERIES AND MORALITIES. 



By Edward Clodd. 

 III. 



A FEW isol.icd spcciniens nnd titles of lost plays 

 excopt,.!. tl,n En-'-li ATvfrrv I'l -,- ■ nr.. iismllv, 

 and ItillMTl^' . '. ' , ;i . ' ; , , ■ ,1 lu tluv. 



wliicll I..M i ■■: ' : ' \V I i ,' . ■ \\";,krli-lil, 



Colk-ftlMl.s. Tin' 



:n..v,n even to Mr. Cdli. 

 revised edition of his "Histoiy of Dim 

 published in 1879, speaks of tlie ,S7-/-./, 

 the incredulity of St. Thomas, ns '•■>]'„• 

 scries of reli;?i<ius draiiins f a-n,.flv rxhU. 

 The York stTies is |n-inlr.| iv.i,,, :, 

 the possession of Lor I .\slil in i,I,,, ,,:. 

 of which Miss Toulinii, Suilll, li:,s I 1 

 a mass of iutereslinv drl:,il fn.,, 

 records of York, thmuino- ,„,u-l, 11,1 

 of the l.liiys.t Tlir orl-l,,;,l \ . !■ 



C0]iylsl. mill ill I 111 ir , ■ ■] ,-, 



I 'In,- < 

 rrlii-'nf 



i Y. vi: 



■ tlio mayor.xlty of Sir John Arnway. 



is name appears in the first verse of the Banes " rca' 



fore the beginninge of the playes." 



"Eeverende lordes and ladyce all, 

 That at this tyme here assembled bee, 

 By this messauge understande yon shall 

 That some tymes there was mayor of this citie 

 Sir .lohn Arnway, Knighte, who moste worthilye 

 Contented hyraselfe to sett out in playe 

 The devise of one Done Kendall, moonke of Chester Abay.'' 



,! SI. e 



-t performed by the Crafts or 

 r|iii3 Christi, in the fonrtcei tb, 

 Kditod by Lucy Toulmin Smith. 



• Vol. ir. p. 7 i . 



t York .V,,.l.. r 

 Mysteries of ^..,l. . , i ,. 



(Oxford: Clar,ni|..M'rH.!. 



t r/,<- ^;„■.-^'l■ ;■;«.,-■ IMUed by Thomas \Vright, for the Shak- 

 speare Society. Tyyo Vols. 1843 and 1847. 



'• ^A■.\ IK.. nnIiU the iuU.-ii. .1 i f nUtiii^ ..ll ihr pluys in 

 11,1 ir iliii 1 nler, with the names of the crafts then per- 

 I'liiiiilnj llii in." The experts at the British Museum 

 . 1,.: I I ll 1 luindwriting to date between 1430-1450, and 

 ill 1.:;. I. iirguing from the style and metre, and 

 I 1,1 references at the end of the fourteenth 



he plays as of "old time," places their 

 ,,:.-'ii.,i in the middle of that century, no 

 li.ir,:- nl'iir ilir 1! |.| 1- ir,' III-.- .f iIh Cursor Uimdi,^ 

 with ihe sill I' ■ : ' I ' '-inient of -which 



]ioei,i (hry h'\. :. , . 1, -n . ,,. ,: If this be so. 



therr is sir, 1.- : r_,iieii s: !• r i^ ;_::: r.l ing the York Series 

 :is ihr nlilist of the four, certainly as preceding tjie 

 'i'nw lull \ , live of the plays in which are almost literal 

 t iMu,~i lij (.1 if corresponding plays in the York collection. 

 It may be (hat both sets are variants of lost originals. 



* Introdnction, p. xvi. 



t T.ndti!: Cnvcnlriac, edited by J. 0. Halliwell-Phillips for the 

 ShiikBppnre Soeiety. 1841. 



' I 1 ,• 7 ,/( y 3f!(.^fmf.«, edited by Dr. Liiigard and others for 



lii, ill. ^ ~ 1 iety, 183G. The manuscript is now in the posses- 



; 11. c c' . M ' ,1 the World: a Northumbrian poem of the XlVih 

 century. Edited by the Rev. Kichd. Morris for the Earlv English 



I Text Society. 187't-1878. 



